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WBZ-TV, channel 4, is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Boston, Massachusetts. WBZ-TV's studios and office facilties are located in the Allston-Brighton section of Boston, and its transmitter is located in Needham, Massachusetts.

History

As an NBC affiliate

WBZ-TV began operations on June 9, 1948, as the first commercial television station in Boston and New England. The station was founded by Westinghouse Radio Stations (later to become Westinghouse Broadcasting, also known as Group W), a subsidiary of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, along with WBZ radio (1030 AM). The station immediately joined NBC owing to WBZ radio's long affiliation with NBC Radio. It is the only television station to have been built from the ground up by Westinghouse.

The station was knocked off the air August 31, 1954, when Hurricane Carol toppled the station's self-supporting tower over its studios. A temporary transmitter was installed on a nearby tower and later on the original tower of WNAC-TV (channel 7, now WHDH-TV). In 1957, WBZ-TV began broadcasting from a 1200-foot (366 m) tower in Needham. The tower site is now known as the CBS Digital Television Broadcasting Facility, and is used by several Boston-area television stations, including WGBH-TV (channel 2) and WCVB-TV (channel 5).

Channel 4 nearly lost its NBC affiliation in 1955, when Westinghouse balked at NBC's offer to trade sister stations KYW radio and WPTZ-TV (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia in exchange for the network's radio and television combination in Cleveland, Ohio. In response, NBC threatened to yank its programming from both WBZ-TV and WPTZ unless Westinghouse agreed to the trade. The swap was made in 1956, but Westinghouse immediately complained to the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Justice Department about NBC's extortion. In 1965, the FCC ordered the swap reversed without NBC realizing any profit on the deal.

WBZ-TV was a pioneer in Boston television. In 1948, it began live broadcasts of Boston's two Major League Baseball teams, the Red Sox and the Boston Braves, broadcasts that at first were split with WNAC. It was also the first Boston station to have daily newscasts, starting with the station's very first night on the air.

In the mid-1960s, it adopted the Eyewitness News format that had been pioneered at KYW-TV.

The station also broadcast many locally-produced programs over the years. One of the most beloved was the long-running Big Brother Bob Emery show, hosted by veteran radio performer Emery, who first did the show on Boston-area radio in 1921 and who in 1947 hosted the first five-times-a-week children's show on network television on DuMont. For nearly two decades, from 1956 until 1974, Rex Trailer hosted a popular weekend-morning children's show called Boomtown. For part of that time, Boomtown originated from an outdoor "western town" set built next to WBZ-TV's studios. In 2005, WBZ aired a special documentary film directed by Michael Bavaro titled "Rex Trailer's Boomtown" featuring old clips and interviews with childhood fans like Jay Leno, Steven Wright, Tom Bergeron, Jimmy Tingle, and many others. The broadcast master in now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City.

From 1977 to 1990, Evening Magazine aired on the station. The original co-hosts were Robin Young and Marty Sender; later, Barry Nolan and Sara Edwards co-hosted the program.

People Are Talking, (1980–1993) a live early-afternoon talk show aired on WBZ, as it did on some other Westinghouse stations. In Boston, it was originally hosted by Nancy Merrill and later by Buzz Luttrell, but the best-known host was the program's last, Tom Bergeron.

File:WBZ Promo89.jpg
Screengrab of WBZ-TV 4 promo from 1989.

As an NBC affiliate, the station was known to preempt several hours of network programming a day — a common practice among Group W stations. This was significant, since WBZ-TV was NBC's second-largest affiliate in the Eastern Time Zone. It primarily preempted several daytime morning programs. On January 3, 1983, when People Are Talking expanded to one hour, WBZ-TV dropped NBC's Another World, which would move to WQTV (now WBPX) until the fall of 1987, when the show moved to WHLL (now WUNI-TV) and later to WMFP in the early 1990s. The station also dropped many Saturday morning cartoons in 1990, even though NBC later abandoned such programming in favor of live-action, teen-oriented shows, such as Saved by the Bell.

NBC has traditionally been less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks. However, it was generally satisfied with WBZ-TV, which was one of NBC's strongest affiliates. As a sidebar, sister station KYW-TV in Philadelphia (then NBC's largest affiliate) also heavily preempted NBC programming, but it spent most of the 1980s and 1990s as NBC's weakest major-market affiliate.

In the early 1980s, WBZ-TV lost its longtime spot as Boston's highest-rated news station to WCVB, but even then was a strong second for more than a decade. Its evening news team — anchors Liz Walker and Jack Williams, meteorologist Bruce Schwoegler and sportscaster Bob Lobel — was the longest-running news team in New England from 1980 until Walker moved to the noon newscasts in 2000. Other personalities who came to channel 4 during this time were entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik and political reporter John Henning. Williams and Walker, are still at channel 4 today, though Walker is now the host of a Sunday morning talk show.

Transition

In 1994, sister station WJZ-TV in Baltimore lost its affiliation with ABC after that network announced a deal with the E.W. Scripps Company to switch all but two of Scripps' television stations (including its Baltimore outlet, WMAR-TV) to ABC. Westinghouse was outraged, and as a safeguard began shopping for affiliation deals for the entire Group W television unit. Group W eventually struck an agreement to switch WBZ-TV, KYW-TV, and WJZ-TV to CBS (Westinghouse's two other stations, in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, were already CBS affiliates).

The Boston market's third network affiliation switch took place on January 2, 1995. After a 47-year relationship with NBC, channel 4 became the third station in Boston to align with CBS. The network had originally affiliated with WNAC-TV in 1948, then moved to channel 5 (then known as WHDH-TV) in 1962. It then returned to WNAC-TV (the current WHDH-TV) in 1972 and stayed there until the switch. As a CBS affiliate, WBZ-TV airs the entire CBS schedule with no pre-emptions except for local news emergencies, as per Westinghouse's agreement with CBS.

When Westinghouse purchased CBS outright in early 1996, WBZ-TV became a CBS-owned and operated station. As a condition of the merger, CBS had to sell recently-acquired WPRI-TV (channel 12) in Providence, Rhode Island. The two station's signals share similar coverage areas in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and FCC regulations at the time did not allow common ownership of two or more television stations with overlapping signals.

WBZ-TV was the first former Group W station to drop the channel number in Group W's Anklepants font, and WBZ-TV introduced a then-new logo in 1997.

As a CBS-owned station

Although the station tends to rank #1 in daytime and primetime ratings, Channel 4's local news ratings have suffered since the switch in network affiliations. This is partly because at the time of the switch, CBS was well behind NBC in the network ratings. Taken as a whole, its local news is the lowest rated of Boston's "Big 3" affiliates, having dipped behind a resurgent WHDH-TV as well. In January of 2006, attempting to bolster its local news ratings, Channel 4 reinstated its 5 pm news and dismissed its former lead anchor Josh Binswanger, leading to the return of long-time anchor Jack Williams to the prime-time newscasts. In addition, Ed Carroll's contract was not renewed and in October 2005 the station hired Ken Barlow from KARE-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to replace him as chief meteorologist.

In late August 2006, WBZ-TV ended its 4 pm weekday newscast and hired anchor Chris May from WHDH-TV. May, along with Sara Underwood, anchored the 5 pm weekday news on WBZ-TV. May has since moved to sister station KYW-TV in Philadelphia, and Underwood's contract with the station was not renewed. She left the station on March 4, 2008. As of September 18, 2006, WHDH now airs the only 4 PM weekday newscast in the Boston area.

In January 2007, the station launched Project Mass[1], a commitment to cover the community's top concerns in government, transit, healthcare, education, finance, and the environment. The initiative kicked-off with an online town meeting.

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WBZ-TV IDs used during KEWLopolis programming.

Channel 4 has changed its news and station branding continuously since the affiliation switch, from "Eyewitness News" to "WBZ News 4" to "News 4 New England" to "WBZ 4 News". On February 1, 2004, WBZ rebranded itself as "CBS4," as per the CBS Mandate.

The "CBS4" branding was phased-out during the first quarter of 2007 and, as of February 2007, the station's newscast title was reverted from "CBS 4 News" to "WBZ News". The return of "WBZ-TV" and "WBZ News" took place Sunday, February 4, 2007, during the station's coverage of the Super Bowl[2]. This makes the station the first station owned by CBS to depart from the CBS Mandate standardization since. It joins sister stations KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, WCCO-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul, WWJ in Detroit and WJZ-TV in Baltimore in not following the Mandate currently. General manager Ed Piette told The Boston Globe that he decided to ditch the "CBS4" branding when he arrived in Boston for his first day of work and a cabbie asked him, "Whatever happened to WBZ?" Piette hopes to reemphasize WBZ-TV's local identity--a strategy that worked well when he was general manager at WCCO-TV, ironically another station that doesn't follow the CBS Mandate. [3]

After the 2000 acquisition of CBS by its former subsidiary, Viacom, WBZ-TV's operations were merged with that of Boston's UPN affiliate, WSBK-TV, and later with WLWC-TV, the UPN affiliate in nearby Providence. Today, the operations of WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV are co-located at WBZ's studios in Brighton. WLWC was sold in 2006 to the Four Points Media Group, a broadcaster controlled by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.

WBZ's on-air staff continued to change in late 2007, when longtime morning anchor Scott Wahle was re-assigned and replaced by former WFXT anchor David Wade. In January 2008, longtime morning and midday meteorologist Barry Burbank was re-assigned to the weekend programs. He was replaced by meteorologist Todd Gutner.

On February 29 2008, it was reported that the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused a significant loss in viewers during the late news. WBZ-TV finished with an average of 157,800 total viewers, down from 177,800 viewers in 2007.[4]

On April 1, 2008, CBS' owned-and-operated television stations division ordered widespread budget cuts and staff layoffs from its stations. As a result of the budget cuts, roughly 30 staffers were released from WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV, including longtime sports director Bob Lobel, entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik, and WSBK anchor Scott Wahle. Lobel left channel 4 on May 16, while Kulhawik and Wahle left on May 29 and 30, respectively. Steve Burton is now the new sports director, while the position that Kulhawik held was eliminated. Jack Williams filled in for the 9pm spot in the interim. It was announced on June 6 that reporter and now former-weekend anchor Kate Merrill will anchor the news, along with general assignment duty weekdays at 5/6pm.

Special events

Over the past few years, WBZ-TV and parent CBS have co-produced a live telecast of the annual Boston Pops' July 4 concert at Boston's Hatch Shell along the Charles River. The entire concert is broadcast live locally by WBZ. The CBS network joins the show in progress at 10 p.m. to show the Pops' signature versions of "1812 Overture" and "Stars and Stripes Forever," as well as the fireworks over the Charles. Live coverage of the event was broadcast in high-definition for the first time beginning in 2007[5].

For several years, the station has aired exclusive First Night Boston coverage on New Year's Eve, showcasing festivities from Boston, New England, and the world.

Also the Boston Marathon (see Sports section below).

Digital television

Digital channels
Channel Programming
4.1 / 30.1 main WBZ-TV/CBS programming

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [6], WBZ-TV will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 30. [7] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WBZ-TV's virtual channel as 4.


Lottery

WBZ-TV was also the first station to air daily Mass State Lottery drawings in Boston, starting in 1975. Tom Bergeron credits one of his early TV jobs to hosting lottery drawings on Channel 4. The station holds the record for having the rights to the games the longest (12 years), before passing the torch to Channel 7 (then known as WNEV-TV) in 1987. Eleven years later, Lottery Live would return to WBZ, with long-time host Dawn Hayes still at the helm. Due to new limited contacts permitting the local stations to carry Lottery Live for only three years at a time, WBZ moved the games to sister station WSBK-TV in 2001.

Sports

WBZ-TV has aired local sporting events over the years. Besides the Braves (1948 until they moved to Milwaukee before the 1953 season) and the Red Sox (1948–1957; 1972–1974, and a handful of games in 2003 and 2004), WBZ-TV also broadcast the Boston Celtics from 1972–73 through 1984–85. In 1980, WBZ-TV was the first Boston television station to broadcast live wire-to-wire coverage of the Boston Marathon; the station has done so every year since, and was the only Boston station to do so in 2007 and 2008.

Logos

In the early 1960s, WBZ unveiled a new stylized "4" logo, using a distinctive font that had been designed especially for Group W. The logo became italicized in the late 1980s, but remained the same font. It kept this logo for over 30 years until it unveiled its first "News 4 New England" logo in September 1996. The old logo was the longest-used numeric logo in New England television history until WCVB's stylized "5" crossed the 31-year mark in 2003.

The "Circle-4" logo that replaced the original "News 4" logo in 1998 was often referred to on-air by WBZ sports anchor Bob Lobel as "The Circle 4 Ranch." As of 2007, WBZ has dropped the CBS-mandated "CBS4" logo and branding and now refers to itself simply as "WBZ-TV".

Coverage area

WBZ-TV's transmitter and antenna are located in Needham, Massachusetts, on the same tower as WCVB-TV/DT, WGBH-TV/DT, WGBX-TV/DT, and WSBK-TV's HDTV transmitter. In fact, the tower and site are owned by CBS itself. Its signal covers Greater Boston, southern New Hampshire, northern Rhode Island, and northeastern Connecticut. WBZ is also one of six local Boston TV stations seen in Canada on the Bell ExpressVu satellite provider, and is also seen on most cable systems in Atlantic Canada.

Newscasts

WBZ operates a Bell LongRanger 206LIV called "Sky Eye". In addition to its main studios in Boston, the station operates two other news bureaus. The "Worcester Bureau" is located on Main Street; the "New Hampshire Bureau" is located on Elm Street in Manchester.

The station's weather radar, known as "WBZ Doppler Live", is located at Worcester Regional Airport. Along with other CBS-owned stations, WBZ offers a web-only "@ Your Desk" newscast available live and on-demand.

WBZ produces a weeknight 9 o'clock newscast for sister station WSBK.

News/Station Presentation

Newscast names

  • Eyewitness News (1965-1993)
  • WBZ News 4 (1993-1996)
  • News 4 New England (1996-2000)
  • WBZ 4 News (2000-2004)
  • CBS 4 News (2004-2007)
  • WBZ News (2007-present)

Newscast Music

  • WBZ 1970s Telesound Theme, Telesound (19??-1979)
  • The One For All, Gari Communications (1979-1982)
  • We're 4, Klein & (1980-1982)
  • Today's 4, Edd Kalehoff Productions (1982-1985)
  • Catch 5, Gari Communications (1983-1985) Used for Live On 4 Show
  • WBZ 1985 News Theme, Gari Communications (1985-1990)
  • WBZ 1990 News Theme, Unknown (1990-1992)
  • WBZ-TV News Package, Mason Daring (1992-1994)
  • WBZ 1994 News Theme, Unknown (1994-1995)
  • WBZ/WSBK 1994 News Theme, Unknown (1995-1996)
  • Newsworks, Music Oasis (1996-1998)
  • WBZ Channel 4 News Package, Michael Whalen Music (1998-2000)
  • CBS Boston News Package 2000, Michael Whalen Music (2000-2003)
  • Adrenaline, Groove Addicts (2003-2005)
  • Newstime, 615 Music (2005-2007)
  • musicforinformation/Pride Collection, In The Groove Music (2007-Present)

News team

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WBZ's weeknight 6 and 11 anchors.
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The station's chief meteorologist.
  • Bruce Adams, Traffic Reporter
  • Karen Anderson, New Hampshire Bureau Reporter
  • Ken Barlow, Chief Meteorologist
  • Joel Brown, National Correspondent
  • Karen Brown, National Correspondent
  • Barry Burbank, Meteorologist
  • Paul Burton, Reporter
  • Steve Burton, Sports Anchor/Reporter
  • Alexis Christoforous, National Correspondent
  • Sera Congi, Reporter
  • Alice Cook, Sports Reporter
  • Eileen Curran, Reporter
  • Kathy Curran, I-Team Reporter
  • Charlie D'Agata, National Correspondent
  • Paula Ebben, News Anchor, Consumer Reporter
  • Jonathan Elias, News Anchor
  • Manuel Gallegus, National Correspondent
  • Beth Germano, Special Correspondent
  • Todd Gutner, Meteorologist
  • Christina Hager, Special Correspondent
  • Dawn Hasbrouck, News Anchor/Reporter
  • John Henning, Senior Correspondent
  • Lisa Hughes, Principal News Anchor
  • Jon Keller, Political Editor
  • Rich Kirkland, Traffic Reporter
  • Josh Landis, National Correspondent
  • Drew Levinson, National Correspondent
  • Ken MacLeod, News Anchor/Reporter
  • Dr. Mallika Marshall, Medical Editor
  • Kate Merrill, News Anchor/Reporter
  • Mish Michaels, Meteorologist
  • Yadires Nova-Salcedo, Host
  • Teri Okita, National Correspondent
  • Scott Pike, Traffic Reporter
  • Susan Roberts, National Correspondent
  • David Robichaud, Feature Reporter
  • Dan Roche, Sports Reporter
  • Peg Rusconi, Reporter
  • Ron Sanders, Worcester Bureau Reporter
  • Bill Shields, Reporter
  • Joe Shortsleeve, Chief Correspondent
  • Jim Smith, Reporter
  • David Wade, News Anchor
  • Liz Walker, Host
  • Jack Williams, Principal News Anchor
  • Sarah Wroblewski, Meteorologist

Past personalities

  • Teri Adler - reporter (2005-2007)
  • Sharyn Alfonsi - reporter (2003-2005), formerly of CBS News, now at ABC News
  • Charles Austin - reporter (1972-2003) retired.
  • Steve Aveson - Evening Magazine tipster (1981-1986) now at WPRI-TV.
  • Suzanne Bates - anchor/reporter (1987-2000), now owns communications firm Bates Communications
  • Melissa Bell - Weekend Meteorologist (now free-lancing at WFXT)
  • Joe Bergantino, I-Team Reporter (1981-1986; 1991-2008)
  • Tom Bergeron - Lifestyle Reporter (1993 - 1994), now at America's Funniest Home Videos
  • Ed Berger - Money reporter (1978-1982)
  • Len Berman - sports anchor (1973-1978, now at WNBC-TV in New York)
  • Josh Binswanger - anchor/reporter (1994-1998 and 2001-2005)
  • Jeanne Blake - science and health editor (1985-1991)
  • Clark Booth - reporter (1967-1975)
  • Jack Borden - anchor (1959-1980)
  • David Brudnoy - commentator (1993-2004, deceased)
  • Kim Carrigan - anchor (2001-2004, now at WFXT)
  • Ed Carroll - chief meteorologist (1993-2005, now at WGGB-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts)
  • Terry Carter - the first black news anchor on local television news (1965-1968)
  • Virginia Cha - anchor (1995-2000), now at CNN
  • Jack Chase - anchor (1953-1982, deceased)
  • Paula Childs - reporter (1981-1987)
  • Pauline Chou - reporter (now a CBS correspondent)
  • Jack Cole - anchor (1972-1975)
  • Chris Conangla - anchor (1983-1987)
  • Kerry Connolly - anchor (2001-2004)
  • Paul Cousins - weekend weather (1980-1984)
  • Pablo Correa - reporter (early to mid-1980s)
  • John Dougherty - anchor/reporter (1988-1999), later moved to WMTW-TV, now retired.
  • Mike Dowling - sports anchor/reporter (1984-1985, now at WCVB-TV)
  • Ysabel Duron - reporter (1979-1980, now at KRON-TV in San Francisco)
  • Sara Edwards - Evening Magazine co-host (1982-1990, now at CN8)
  • Tom Ellis - anchor (1968-1975, now at NECN)
  • Carmen Fields - reporter (1986-1987)
  • Dr. Murray Feingold - medical reporter (1970's & early 1980s) now at WBZ-AM.
  • Dick Flavin - political critic (1967-1979)
  • Nancy Glass - reporter (Evening Magazine 1979-1984)
  • Gail Granik (Gardner)- sports reporter/anchor (1977-1981) formerly at NBC Sports.
  • Robin Hamilton - anchor/reporter (2001-2006)
  • Gail Harris - anchor/reporter (1977-1981)
  • Linda Harris - reporter (1977-1985)
  • John Henning - senior correspondent/political reporter (1981-2007)
  • Andy Hiller - political reporter (1977-1993, now at WHDH-TV)
  • Mike Hydeck - weekend anchor/reporter (1999-2005) now at WFSB-TV, in Hartford.
  • Jack Hynes - anchor (1955-1956)
  • Dennis Kauff - reporter (1982-1985, deceased)
  • Kasey Kaufman - anchor/reporter (1986-2007)
  • Kathryn Keefer - anchor (1980-1984)
  • Don Kent - veteran meteorologist (1955-1983)
  • Sharon King - consumer reporter/talk show host of Money Sense (1970-1981)
  • Joyce Kulhawik - entertainment reporter (1981-2008)
  • Gary LaPierre - anchor (retired from WBZ Radio in 2006)
  • Buzz Lutrell - former host of People Are Talking (late 1980s)
  • Shelli Lockhart - anchor/reporter (2001-2006, now at WDAF-TV in Kansas City)
  • Paula Lyons - consumer reporter (1994-2003)
  • Chris May - anchor (2006-2007, now at KYW-TV in Philadelphia)
  • Arch MacDonald - WBZ-TV's first anchorman (1948-1979, deceased)
  • Norm MacDonald - weekend weather (1964-1975)
  • Mike Macklin - reporter/anchor (1984-1994)
  • Chris Marrou - anchor (1980-1981, now at KENS-TV in San Antonio)
  • Dave Maynard - host of Community Auditions (1955-1990) retired from WBZ-AM.
  • Jay McQuaid - morning anchor/reporter (1990-1995) now at WBZ-AM.
  • Jennifer McLogan - anchor/reporter (1979-1982, now at WCBS-TV in New York)
  • Peter Mehegan - anchor/reporter (1967-1981, now at WCVB)
  • Nancy Merrill - host of People are Talking (1980's)
  • Pat Mitchell - anchor/reporter/host (1972-1977) (former PBS-TV president)
  • Sean Mooney - anchor/reporter (1997-1999)
  • Pam Moore - anchor/reporter (1986-1991, now at KRON-TV in San Francisco)
  • Dave Murray - meteorologist (1986-1989, now at KTVI in St. Louis)
  • Bob Neumeier - sports anchor/reporter (1981-2001, now at NBC Sports)
  • Barry Nolan - Evening Magazine co-host (1980-1989, now at CN8)
  • Hampton Pearson - Now at CNBC (1987-1995)
  • Uma Pemmaraju - anchor/reporter (1988-1996, now at Fox News Channel)
  • Tony Pepper - anchor (1974-1981)
  • Randy Price - anchor (1983-1995, now at WHDH-TV)
  • Bill Rappleye - reporter (1992-1996), now at WJAR-TV
  • Tory Ryden - weekend anchor (1991-1992) now at WMTW-TV in Portland, ME.
  • Nancy Russo - meteorologist (1989-1992)
  • Walt Sanders - reporter (1967-1995)
  • Gil Santos - morning sports fill in (1990-1995) & voice of the N.E.Patriots.
  • Carolyn Sawyer - reporter (1990-1992 and 1997-2004)
  • Marty Sender - Evening Magazine co-host (1977-1980)
  • Bruce Schwoegler - longtime chief meteorologist (1968-2001)
  • Shelby Scott - first female anchor and reporter for WBZ (1965-1996)
  • Don Shane - sports anchor/reporter (1983-1989, now at WXYZ-TV in Detroit)
  • Dick Stockton (1973-1976), now at Fox Sports
  • Mary Stuart - arts & entertainment (1978-1982 ?)
  • Sarah-Ann Shaw - reporter (1969-2000)
  • Gary Tanguay - weekend sports anchor
  • Lauren Thierry - anchor/reporter (1989-1991)
  • Lou Tilley - sports (1981-1985) now at CN8 in Philadelphia,PA.
  • Rex Trailer - host of Boomtown (1955-1975)
  • Roger Twibell - sports anchor (1978-1981, now at ESPN)
  • Sara Underwood - anchor (2000-2008)
  • Scott Wahle - anchor (1989-2008)
  • Liz Walker - anchor (1981-2005), now host of Sunday with Liz Walker on 'BZ.
  • Jack Walton - reporter
  • Jim Watkins - Evening Magazine host/reporter (1989-1991, now at WPIX-TV)
  • Ted Wayman - anchor/reporter (1990-2006)
  • Jack White - investigative reporter (1979-1981, deceased)
  • Bob Wilson - sports fill-in (1970's) former voice of Boston Bruins on WBZ-AM.
  • T.J Winick - reporter (2001-2005) now at ABC News.
  • David Wittman - anchor (1982-1991, now at WOIO-TV in Cleveland)
  • Sharon Wright - consumer/investigative reporter (1981-1986, now at WMAQ-TV in Chicago)
  • Robin Young - Evening Magazine co-host (1977-1982, now at WBUR)

References

  1. ^ wbztv.com - Project Mass
  2. ^ http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=180554
  3. ^ Changing the station - The Boston Globe
  4. ^ Strike took viewers from late local news
  5. ^ Ch. 4 fireworks go high-def - The Boston Globe
  6. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  7. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231118&formid=387&fac_num=25456
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